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Mission is an integral part of Jesus Christ’s heart
He, as the King and God, left His Kingdom behind and came to the human’s world to serve and to show us the love of the Father. Now we as God’s children carry the message of salvation on across the world. We testify God’s love and power. A mission is in the Word of Life DNA.
And you will be my witness, telling people about me everywhere — in Jerusalem, throughout Judea, in Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. Acts 1:8
3 billion people in Asia, Europe and Middle East do not know the Good News yet, they have never heard about Jesus Christ.
These people are our main focus and challenge
Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Teach these new disciples to obey all the commands I have given you. Matthew 28:19-20
Go and teach
One of the main aspects of the missionary work — is to equip Christians all around the world with the word of belief. God gave pastor Matts-Ola Ishoel the prophetic word, ‘Go to the Eastern Europe and serve humbly not proudly’. Due to this word the seminars for Serbian leaders started in November 2017. From all around Serbia and former Yugoslavian countries there were around 70 people who gathered to listen to the teaching of faith.
Alexander Demiter, the coordinator and the participant of the seminars:
"We feel that the seminars are the new step for the Serbian church. For the first time there were Russian ministers who conducted them. We believe that God will give us the understanding how to build His church with what we already have.
When we planned the seminars, we thought there would be 25-30 people from all around Serbia and former Yugoslavian countries. However right before the beginning the amount increased for about 50. We are excited about what God is doing.
This is the beginning of something new and on the other side it is the continuation of God’s work in our country. We believe it will bring endless fruits. We want to work with equipping God’s people to do good things and help them to be able to carry the God’s Kingdom across Yugoslavia and further".
Countries for the mission
India
Tadzhikistan
Serbia
Zambia
Azerbaijan
Don’t just take our word for it
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Svetlana Morozova
I was on three short missionary trips. Once in India and twice in Kenya. If you compare the trips, they are very different, and the work in these countries was also different.
India. In India, we preached a lot on the streets. It is easy for white people in India to attract attention. Once we gathered a crowd of Hindus around us in 10 minutes and held an evangelistic program: we danced, performed magic tricks, sang, and then talked about Christ. Many accepted Jesus that day.
We prayed for the healing of an old man with Parkinson’s disease. He could not walk on his own, and after prayer he began to bend down, raise his hands, and even run around the field and dance for joy. After the amazing miracle, people ran to us for prayer. I remember a paralyzed girl who started walking after we prayed for her healing. We wept — we all wept for joy at what God was doing.
The faith of people in India is like that of children. There were people who wept and said, «no one has ever died for me, no God has ever done anything like this for me.»
We served in the Mother Teresa home for sick children who can’t live without someone else’s help — blind children and children who can’t move and just sit there foaming at the mouth. By helping there, we understood how much the world needs hope. We also served in a hospice, where everyone accepted prayer, and no one refused to pray.
Kenya. A trip to Kenya was different from a trip to India. In Kenya, 90% of the population consider themselves Christians, but they do not have salvation and live in sin, continue to cheat on their wives, and so on. We helped people and went to the Lodwar desert. In this desert, it doesn’t rain for 9 months, where we gathered people under the trees, held services and distributed food. They also carried out medical examinations, prescribed medications and recommendations. People in those parts do not have the opportunity to disinfect the wound, because of this, the entire arm or leg often suppurates.
We fed people, went to landfills looking for children to cover them with blankets, and took some of them to Christian shelters. We helped financially those who could not afford to buy a sheep or pay for a year’s school tuition at a cost of$200. We bought 200 mattresses for a Christian orphanage.
Mission for me is a way of life that doesn’t depend on where we are. A missionary is every Christian who does not pass by, but responds to the needs of the people around him.
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Vitalii Khodirev
It all started with a short missionary trip to India in 2012. I haven’t passed any bible seminars or other theology courses. I was a common churchgoer. Everything connected with miracles and the movement of the Holy Spirit seemed ancient and associated with disciples’ era. While being on the missionary trip God has touched my heart, I have felt His power, seen how God heal and free people through my hands. Gospel came alive to me. I could not fully understand what it was at that moment but I told God that I wanted to move further in that.
After the first trip God sent me to the Bible seminars. It was a special time, when I built the foundation of my Christian faith but what is more important — I had a calling to be a missionary. While studying I went to India for the second time and it was an exceptional time . The gifts of the Holy Spirit which I had no idea about before started to work in my life. This trip was determinative for me — I have made a decision to devote my life to being a missionary
Then I went to study in the missionary department of the academic program «Word of life», quit my job and went on a four-month trip to India. There I helped in the administration of Bible schools, preached in churches and in home groups. Day after day, I saw God’s calling unfold in my life, changing me and the people around me. After finishing my academic program, I saved up some money and left for a long-term mission.
God has a calling for every person. Mine is to be a missionary. For me, to enter the calling meant leaving a promising job in the «oil industry», the usual comfortable life and faith to go to another country with a foreign culture. In return, I got something I couldn’t even dream of. I am happy in where I am and what I am doing for His Kingdom.
Svetlana Morozova
I was on three short missionary trips. Once in India and twice in Kenya. If you compare the trips, they are very different, and the work in these countries was also different.
India. In India, we preached a lot on the streets. It is easy for white people in India to attract attention. Once we gathered a crowd of Hindus around us in 10 minutes and held an evangelistic program: we danced, performed magic tricks, sang, and then talked about Christ. Many accepted Jesus that day.
We prayed for the healing of an old man with Parkinson’s disease. He could not walk on his own, and after prayer he began to bend down, raise his hands, and even run around the field and dance for joy. After the amazing miracle, people ran to us for prayer. I remember a paralyzed girl who started walking after we prayed for her healing. We wept — we all wept for joy at what God was doing.
The faith of people in India is like that of children. There were people who wept and said, «no one has ever died for me, no God has ever done anything like this for me.»
We served in the Mother Teresa home for sick children who can’t live without someone else’s help — blind children and children who can’t move and just sit there foaming at the mouth. By helping there, we understood how much the world needs hope. We also served in a hospice, where everyone accepted prayer, and no one refused to pray.
Kenya. A trip to Kenya was different from a trip to India. In Kenya, 90% of the population consider themselves Christians, but they do not have salvation and live in sin, continue to cheat on their wives, and so on. We helped people and went to the Lodwar desert. In this desert, it doesn’t rain for 9 months, where we gathered people under the trees, held services and distributed food. They also carried out medical examinations, prescribed medications and recommendations. People in those parts do not have the opportunity to disinfect the wound, because of this, the entire arm or leg often suppurates.
We fed people, went to landfills looking for children to cover them with blankets, and took some of them to Christian shelters. We helped financially those who could not afford to buy a sheep or pay for a year’s school tuition at a cost of$200. We bought 200 mattresses for a Christian orphanage.
Mission for me is a way of life that doesn’t depend on where we are. A missionary is every Christian who does not pass by, but responds to the needs of the people around him.
Vitalii Khodirev
It all started with a short missionary trip to India in 2012. I haven’t passed any bible seminars or other theology courses. I was a common churchgoer. Everything connected with miracles and the movement of the Holy Spirit seemed ancient and associated with disciples’ era. While being on the missionary trip God has touched my heart, I have felt His power, seen how God heal and free people through my hands. Gospel came alive to me. I could not fully understand what it was at that moment but I told God that I wanted to move further in that.
After the first trip God sent me to the Bible seminars. It was a special time, when I built the foundation of my Christian faith but what is more important — I had a calling to be a missionary. While studying I went to India for the second time and it was an exceptional time . The gifts of the Holy Spirit which I had no idea about before started to work in my life. This trip was determinative for me — I have made a decision to devote my life to being a missionary
Then I went to study in the missionary department of the academic program «Word of life», quit my job and went on a four-month trip to India. There I helped in the administration of Bible schools, preached in churches and in home groups. Day after day, I saw God’s calling unfold in my life, changing me and the people around me. After finishing my academic program, I saved up some money and left for a long-term mission.
God has a calling for every person. Mine is to be a missionary. For me, to enter the calling meant leaving a promising job in the «oil industry», the usual comfortable life and faith to go to another country with a foreign culture. In return, I got something I couldn’t even dream of. I am happy in where I am and what I am doing for His Kingdom.
